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Paul Ryan VP pick unites Dems, too

Van Hollen - who says he likes Ryan personally - believes that Romney is moving up to shore up support from GOP conservatives by selecting the Wisconsin Republican as his running mate. Van Hollen thinks the move could backfire by driving away independents and undecided voters.

“Politically speaking, what this shows is that Romney is throwing a bone to the right wing of the Republican Party and telling independent voters to take a hike,” Van Hollen added.

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“This is a good pick to win over conservative opinion makers, but a bad one to win over independent voters,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).

Democratic Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.) said Ryan’s budget plan - and the controversial provisions on Medicare and other entitlement programs - will be front and center from now on.

“Congressman Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney are a match made in millionaires’ heaven, but they’ll be a nightmare for seniors who’ve earned their Medicare benefits,” Israel said in a statement. “Now with Congressman Ryan on the ticket, House Republicans face the one thing they hoped to avoid – a national debate on their budget that puts millionaires first and Medicare and the middle class last.”

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), chairman of the Democratic National Committee, called Ryan “a disaster for seniors and the middle class.”

“The American middle-class and our seniors cannot afford to go back to the failed policies of the past, and it is unconscionable to ask them to foot the bill for the Romney-Ryan scheme,” Wasserman Schultz said. “A Romney-Ryan ticket is sure to take us back and repeat the same catastrophic mistakes that got us into the mess we found ourselves in in the first place.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who has been dueling with Romney for weeks over the GOP’s failure to fully release his tax returns, went on the offensive against Ryan as well.

“By picking Representative Paul Ryan, Governor Romney has doubled down on his commitment to gut Social Security and end Medicare as we know it. Romney’s choice demonstrates that catering to the Tea Party and the far-right is more important to him that standing up for the middle class,” Reid said in his own statement.

“The months ahead will provide Americans with a clear choice between the Romney-Ryan plan to gut Social Security and Medicare, and Democrats’ balanced approach to deficit reduction that combines smart spending cuts with asking millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share. Democrats in the Senate look forward to engaging in that debate.”

“Paul Ryan brings to Mitt Romney’s candidacy a strong commitment to end Medicare as we know it,” added Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, chairman of the Democratic Governors Association. “The disastrous Romney-Ryan plan would take us back to the same failed policies of the Bush years that drove our country into recession and record job losses. Their plan hurts middle class families, encouraging companies to ship jobs overseas instead of creating them here at home, while cutting taxes for millionaires at the same time that it cuts education opportunities for students.”

Let's hope it unites the dems, so they tell thier ~leaders~ to come up with a plan, ANY plan..

"President Obama, and too many like him in Washington, have refused to make difficult decisions because they are more worried about their next election than they are about the next generation. " Rep Ryan 08-11-2012

According to Michelle Malkin in 2009, “[Paul Ryan] gave one of the most hysterical speeches in the rush to pass TARP last fall; voted for the auto bailout; and voted with the Barney Frank-Nancy Pelosi AIG bonus-bashing stampede. Milwaukee blogger Nick Schweitzer wrote: ‘He ought to be apologizing for his previous votes, not pretending he was being responsible the entire time, but I don’t see one bit of regret for what he did previously. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to let him get away with it’.”

Conservatives please look at Paul Ryans past voting record! Look for Paul Ryan to start flip flopping on some of his past like Romney. ROMNEY SHOW US YOUR TAXES!

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Considering that Congressman Obama voted president most of the time, I find it hilarious that liberals now want us to look at how Paul Ryan's voting record is. OBAMA, WE KNOW YOU TOOK SCHOLARSHIPS AS A KENYAN STUDENT, SHOW US YOUR RECORDS!

THE CHOICE WAS FORCED ON ROMNEY--JUST NOTE THE DRUMBEAT OF THE LAST THREE DAYS. THEN ROMNEY THREW THEM THE HAIL MARY THEY HAVE BEEN CLAMORING FOR, IT IS ALSO A WAY OF TELLING THEM THAT THEY NOW OWN THE BLAME, SHOULD ANYTHING GO WRONG IN THE END.

LOSERS! WICKED SOULS JAMBOREE!

BRING IT ON, ROMMY!

CRAZY PICK. THE ONE PER CENT HAS MADE ITS BOLDEST MOVE YET! THE RADICALS AND MONEY BAGGERS IN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT SHOUT; ROMNEY BLINKS. THIS WILL BE A DISASTER FOR ROMNEY. NOW YOU KNOW WHO IS IN CONTROL. ROMNEY EVEN INTRODUCED RYAN AS "THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES." (BOTH WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING). IT IS CERTAINLY NOT ROMNEY THE FLIP-FLOPPER WHO WILL BE CALLING THE SHOT; ROMNEY IS A FRONT MAN FOR THE KOCH BROTHERS, THE CHENEYS, RYAN, GINGRICH, CANTO AND THE LIKE! RYAN KEEPS MAKING THE FALSE CLAIM THAT DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT CUTS. It doesn't matter how smooth or glib Ryan sounds or how physically fit he looks, look at the content of his proposals and you will be amazed by the level of wickedness. ON DEFICIT CONTROL, THE ISSUE IS HOW YOU CUT, WHAT YOU CUT AND A BALANCED APPROACH TO CUTS. RYAN DECIMATES THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS AND CUDDLES THE RICH BIG TIME. THIS MAN IS A DEMAGOGUE AND A WICKED SOUL. EVEN THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONDEMNED HIS APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF POVERTY. THE BISHOPS POINTED OUT THAT RYAN "BUDGET APPEARS TO REFLECT THE VALUES OF AYN RAND RATHER THAN THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST" ESPECIALLY IN "HER CALL TO SELFISHNESS AND . . . ANTAGONISM TOWARD RELIGION" AND "THE VALUES OF COMPASSION AND LOVE." ROMNEY'S RECENT ADS. HAS A PICTURE OF POPE JOHN II IN IT. HE FORGETS THAT THE BLESSED POPE IS FOR THE POOR (JUST LIKE JESUS) AND FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. LIKE ROMNEY, RYAN REFUSES TO BE SPECIFIC! I CAN ONLY SAY AT THIS LATE STAGE OF THE GAME: BRING IT ON, ROMMY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A WEAK, BUMBLING, INSECURE DESPERATE CANDIDATE, FOLKS. ROMNEY IS DESPERATE NOW. AND WITH RYAN, GINGRICH WILL SURELY BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY. RYAN, GINGRICH AND ROMNEY--THREE MOST UNPOPULAR GUYS IN THE WORLD!!! HERE YOU HAVE IT. Today, Obama won the election. Democrats might even take back the House.

PAUL RYAN WAS NEVER A LEADER--EXCEPT WHERE HE LED IN BOEHNER'S ABSURD NERDS HOUSE, WITH BOEHNER IN THE LEASH. HE WAS ALWAYS A FOLLOWER, WITH NO ORIGINAL THINKING CAPABILITIES. HE IS A FOLLOWER OF A GERMAN ARCHIST, CRIMINAL ATHEIST AYN RAND. I THINK RAND PAUL READS FROM THE SAME PAGE AND BOOK.

THE CHOICE WAS FORCED ON ROMNEY--JUST NOTE THE DRUMBEAT OF THE LAST THREE DAYS. THEN ROMNEY THREW THEM THE HAIL MARY THEY HAVE BEEN CLAMORING FOR, IT IS ALSO A WAY OF TELLING THEM THAT THEY NOW OWN THE BLAME, SHOULD ANYTHING GO WRONG IN THE END.

LOSERS! WICKED SOULS JAMBOREE!

BRING IT ON, ROMMY!

CRAZY PICK. THE ONE PER CENT HAS MADE ITS BOLDEST MOVE YET! THE RADICALS AND MONEY BAGGERS IN THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT SHOUT; ROMNEY BLINKS. THIS WILL BE A DISASTER FOR ROMNEY. NOW YOU KNOW WHO IS IN CONTROL. ROMNEY EVEN INTRODUCED RYAN AS "THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES." (BOTH WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING). IT IS CERTAINLY NOT ROMNEY THE FLIP-FLOPPER WHO WILL BE CALLING THE SHOT; ROMNEY IS A FRONT MAN FOR THE KOCH BROTHERS, THE CHENEYS, RYAN, GINGRICH, CANTO AND THE LIKE! RYAN KEEPS MAKING THE FALSE CLAIM THAT DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT CUTS. It doesn't matter how smooth or glib Ryan sounds or how physically fit he looks, look at the content of his proposals and you will be amazed by the level of wickedness. ON DEFICIT CONTROL, THE ISSUE IS HOW YOU CUT, WHAT YOU CUT AND A BALANCED APPROACH TO CUTS. RYAN DECIMATES THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS AND CUDDLES THE RICH BIG TIME. THIS MAN IS A DEMAGOGUE AND A WICKED SOUL. EVEN THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS CONDEMNED HIS APPROACH TO THE ISSUE OF POVERTY. THE BISHOPS POINTED OUT THAT RYAN "BUDGET APPEARS TO REFLECT THE VALUES OF AYN RAND RATHER THAN THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST" ESPECIALLY IN "HER CALL TO SELFISHNESS AND . . . ANTAGONISM TOWARD RELIGION" AND "THE VALUES OF COMPASSION AND LOVE." ROMNEY'S RECENT ADS. HAS A PICTURE OF POPE JOHN II IN IT. HE FORGETS THAT THE BLESSED POPE IS FOR THE POOR (JUST LIKE JESUS) AND FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE. LIKE ROMNEY, RYAN REFUSES TO BE SPECIFIC! I CAN ONLY SAY AT THIS LATE STAGE OF THE GAME: BRING IT ON, ROMMY. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A WEAK, BUMBLING, INSECURE DESPERATE CANDIDATE, FOLKS. ROMNEY IS DESPERATE NOW. AND WITH RYAN, GINGRICH WILL SURELY BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY. RYAN, GINGRICH AND ROMNEY--THREE MOST UNPOPULAR GUYS IN THE WORLD!!! HERE YOU HAVE IT. Today, Obama won the election. Democrats might even take back the House.

Romney and his republican friends in Florida and other swing states messing with peoples right to vote. Trying to surpress the black and minoritie vote and elderly. This matter alone should bring out the democrats in force in November.

Romneys budget plans include big cuts, and there's ample room for Democrats to continue with their "Romneyhood narrative." The nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates 62 percent of Ryan's cuts are to programs for the poor.!